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Julien Hamonic & Pascal Hamonic: Applying the Mechanisms of Thermoregulation to Cryptocurrencies
Episode 133
One of the problems often cited when talking about cryptocurrencies is their level of volatility compared to traditional fiat currencies. This makes most cryptocurrencies a poor instrument for storin…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
Stephan Tual: Building a Universal Sharing Network on Ethereum and a $150M DAO
Episode 132
In this episode we welcome back Stephan Tual, the COO of Slock.It, a German startup working at the intersection of the Internet of Things and the Ethereum blockchain. Slock.It’s small team also wrote…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
Evan Schwartz & Stefan Thomas: Building the Internet of Payments with Interledger
Episode 131
One of the foundational problems in payment networks is that they are mostly uninteroperable. This problem exists at all levels, from consumer payment solutions like PayPal, to national and multi-nat…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
Erik Voorhees: Fooling the Fox – The Story of the Shapeshift Hack
Episode 130
In the short history of the Bitcoin industry, there has been an impressive amount of high profile hacks, ranging from a few hundred thousand to many millions of dollars. In all of these, customers, B…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
The Far Future in Front of Us
Episode 129
As the blockchain field continues evolving rapidly, Sebastien, Meher and Brian take some time to discuss the current environment and the longer term implications of blockchains. We discussed how smar…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
Jed Mccaleb: Stellar and the Vision of an Open Financial System
Episode 128
When Jed McCaleb discovered Bitcoin, there didn’t even exist an online marketplace to trade the cryptocurrency yet. The experienced founder who had earlier started file sharing site eDonkey, acted fa…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Anthony di Iorio: Jaxx – Ethereum and Why Community Matters
Episode 127
We were joined by repeat guest Anthony di Iorio, a definite contender for having (co-)founded the most projects in the blockchain space including Ethereum, Kryptokit, Decentral and Jaxx. We got an up…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Trent McConaghy: BigchainDB – Scalable Public Distributed Databases
Episode 126
One of the major drawbacks of Bitcoin is its low transaction throughput. Maxing out only a handful of operations per second, there have been many proposals to scale it up so that it can compete with …
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Florian Glatz: Defining a Legal Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)
Episode 125
The relatively new concept of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), is often praised as a new type of organizational structure that has no identifiable owner or owners, and whose actions are…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Rune Christensen: Maker DAO Ethereum’s Decentralized Central Bank
Episode 124
The challenges Bitcoin’s wild volatility represents for achieving mass adoption have made the necessity for stable cryptocurrencies apparent long ago. With Ethereum applications, the problem is even …
Published on 9 years, 9 months ago